Corporate Affairs Executive

The Role

Are you looking to excel your career further within Corporate Affairs? Would you like to be part of an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees? Imperial Brands have an exciting opportunity to join our Team in Brussels.

Imperial Brands is looking for a Corporate Affairs Executive to join its EU Engagement team in Brussels. This role is designed to provide strong operational, coordination, and research support to the team, helping absorb increasing workload while offering valuable exposure to EU public affairs, stakeholder engagement, and internal coordination.

The role will work closely with the EU Engagement Manager and support the Head of EU Engagement on key organisational and coordination tasks to drive Imperial’s EU advocacy strategies.

Your responsibilities will include developing engagement materials, conducting research, monitoring legislative developments, and establishing relationships with EU institutions and stakeholders. This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong interest in EU policy

Principle Accountabilities

• Monitor EU legislative, regulatory and policy developments relevant to the business, supporting internal reporting, trackers and timely updates to the team.
• Maintain and update internal mapping tools, including stakeholders, institutions, policy files and timelines, ensuring accurate filing and structured information management.
• Support the improvement of internal information-sharing systems and processes, helping the team work more efficiently and consistently.
• Provide team coordination and administrative support, including scheduling meetings, preparing agendas, managing logistics, drafting meeting notes and tracking follow-up actions.
• Support preparation for EU stakeholder engagements by developing background briefings, consolidating inputs from internal and external teams, and assisting with meeting preparation.
• Provide desk research, policy analysis and ad-hoc support across regulatory, political and sustainability files, including support to the Head of EU Engagement and Sustainability Executive.

Skills and Experience Required

• Relevant degree in Politics, Law, Communications or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in a similar role, ideally within a corporate environment, EU institution, public affairs or policy environment.
• Strong understanding of the EU legislative and policy-making process.
• Excellent research, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex policy and regulatory information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; additional European languages would be an advantage.
• Proactive, accountable and detail-oriented, with strong organisational skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.